December's pink food thread!

[Out of the Blue]

Friday:

• 2 C. tea w/splash of rice milk
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• White basmati rice w/sautéed leeks and mushrooms w/a bit of goat cheese (YUM!...just that little bit of goat cheese really made big difference in taste!)
• Salad w/raspberry vinaigrette
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• Air-popped popcorn
• Smoothie (rice milk, frozen raspberries, psyllium husks)
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• Throughout the day, 3 C. peppermint tea, 1 C. RRL tea


Saturday:

• 2 C. coffee w/splash of rice milk
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• Ate out…salad, broccoli-cheddar soup and piece of white baguette
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• Grilled zucchini (courgette) w/a bit of goat cheese
• Low fat plain yogurt w/canned pumpkin, cinnamon and a bit of stevia
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• Throughout the day, 2 C. peppermint tea, 1 C. RRL tea


Sunday:

• 2 C. coffee w/splash of rice milk
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• Ate out…Half a tostada salad (lettuce, beans & rice, pico de gallo sauce on a soft white tortilla)
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• Other half of the tostada salad, 2 candy canes
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• Throughout the day, 3 C. peppermint tea, 1 C. RRL tea

Not the best few days food-wise but not terrible either! Going to try to hit those white carbs hard today...

[suregena]

Then all the more reason to add these things into your diet. Remember we want to eat as differently as possible from what we ate when we had our boys. I have a history of HATING aspartame as well, but after months of forcing myself to drink Diet Pepsi I actually barely notice the difference between it and regular Pepsi anymore. I've also developed a sweet tooth that I didn't have before and that continued after my BFP .

Very, very true. I need my body to go, "WTF, Gena?!"



Soooo... diet Dr Pepper, here I COME!

[suregena]

mmm love cupcakes!

I've got to eat out tomorrow (work Christmas party) eek! It's going to be meat-included Thai food... what do you think is worse for the LE diet, eating a variety of meat (some chicken, some beef, and some prawn - not technically meat I know!) or eating more of the colourful veggies and getting loads of nutrients from them...?

My mother in law has pre-paid for us to have a Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve and it's a set menu (three courses! Obviously, no meat for me because I'm already vegetarian... but a lot of cheese and sauces, I'm certain....), so I have to eat it. All I can decide to do is eat nothing else that day. Gah. I haven't looked ahead to see where I am in my cycle that day... but I think roughly it will be January sometime when we'll be doing the official TTC month.

[suregena]

Me too! Mocha is right...it's good to shake things up in your diet, most especially if the things you're incorporating sway girl. Ditto on the cakes...YUMMO! Do you eat eggs or are you a lacto-ovo veg?

I do eat eggs... basically, I'm a vegetarian who eats dairy but typically not animal byproducts like Cochineal (which is used in a LOT of zero fat Strawberry yogurt... what's the point? It's just a food color! But made out of crushed bugs) or gelatin or animal rennet set cheeses (so, typically, parmesan is a no-no and various cheeses of that nature... especially if they are protected within the EU, as most of those tend to make it the traditional way with animal rennet). So, yes to eggs, cheese (with non-animal rennet), milk.

But I don't think I'll be eating eggs on this diet unless it is baked into something, although I have been curiously looking at the egg white you can buy in a carton... but haven't checked its protein.

[Out of the Blue]

Suregena, I was just curious since I'm a vegetarian but was a vegan before/during/after DS#2. Then after he was about 6 mos or so, I ate fish again (just a few times a year) and then cheese here and there. I've kept up the cheese and sometimes yogurt for the sway but would loooove to go back to vegan b/c I felt really great on the diet! Right now, the bit of dairy I do include helps me keep to the girl diet so I do that for now. I only do eggs right now in cakes, etc. if I even have those.

[suregena]

Suregena, I was just curious since I'm a vegetarian but was a vegan before/during/after DS#2. Then after he was about 6 mos or so, I ate fish again (just a few times a year) and then cheese here and there. I've kept up the cheese and sometimes yogurt for the sway but would loooove to go back to vegan b/c I felt really great on the diet! Right now, the bit of dairy I do include helps me keep to the girl diet so I do that for now. I only do eggs right now in cakes, etc. if I even have those.

Neat! I'd love to do full vegan on this diet but I don't know how to do that, per se, and keep my calories up with the general restrictions as it is.

I've been vegetarian for years but probably protein heavy because of my love of Mexican food (beans, beans, beans! And it cracks me up how, over the years, people would voice their concern for me being vegetarian on, "Are you SURE you get enough protein?!" and especially when I was pregnant for my son, both my mother who has always been happy with my vegetarianism and especially my father, were VERY concerned about protein then. I was a spitting image of health throughout my pregnancy! I had amazing iron reserves... my midwife was always very pleased with my blood tests. Sillies...)

So even though the odd amount of beans is allowed, I am seriously going to try not to have them at all... because my body is used to them and craves them all of the time. Have to shake things up a bit.

What sort of vegan meals were you eating when you conceived your son?

[zanacal]

Suregena - I never had a sweet tooth either but got quite a taste for them on the LE diet! I think you really need them to get the extra calories without any protein or sodium. I used to eat Mr Kipling cakes (Viennese Whirls, Mini Battenbergs etc.), Bakewell Tarts, Jam Tarts, Weight Watchers Victoria sponge cakes, Tutti Fruttis, Fox's Glacier Fruits and Skittles. I made sure I always bought vegetarian (although with the cakes I guess it depends on the brand).

[suregena]

Hmm... I think I'd be up for skittles. Those are always fun. Been ages since I've had them but I'm assuming they're vegetarian. Maybe I'll get some at work tomorrow! :P

[Out of the Blue]

Suregena,
So funny about the “not enough protein”…I easily ate 75 – 100+ grams of protein per day on a vegan diet w/out even thinking about it! Protein is seriously the least of health worries on a veg diet! I think that’s a great idea to really limit your beans, especially if that was your diet w/DS1. I also love beans and never eat them unless we’re out (which is entirely too often!).

Regarding what I ate when I was vegan, my favorite meal was the following:
Brown rice or quinoa topped w/steamed veggies (kale, carrots, purple cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower) and tofu topped w/sauce (tahini + soy sauce + bit of water). Honestly, I craved this all the time and had it once or twice a week. DH loved it as well.

Another staple in our house was a big salad w/:
• Romaine lettuce
• Endives
• Cucumber
• Tomatoes
• Green beans (grilled or raw)
• Asparagus (grilled or raw)
• Edamame
• Beets
• Apples

I mixed it up and topped it w/vinaigrette dressing. For DH who wasn’t/isn’t vegan, I put ****d white cheddar in it.

I also made quinoa tabbouleh, vegan potato salad and wonderful enchiladas topped w/a cheese sauce made out of cashews and nutritional yeast flakes. That sauce is also really yummy over tortilla chips for nachos but screams BOY!

[Out of the Blue]

Hey Mocha! I just sent your packie...I feel so strange just sending you seaweed...It'll be so anti-climactic when you open it. I totally wanted to stuff some chocolate and toffee covered pecans in there but I didn’t b/c I don’t want to ruin your sway. I figure the seaweed is bad enough, lol!